Have you already tried "killall -9 parallel" as root?
Till
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> jarillon : 10/09 05:57 : Incident created 1- When
> installing, the printer was in power off state.
> Then I switch on the printer and I restart configuring
> with CUPS.
> This was impossible : "network not initialized"
> After reboot, printerDrake succceded.
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> MORE IMPORTANT
> When sending the test a paper jam occurs. I stopped the
> printer and use
> CUPS to abort the job. It seems good, but the printer still
> print garbage.
> I removed some files in /var/spool/cups/ : 000001 000002
> tmp/* but the parallel port was still busy and the printer
> was still printing garbages when I put it on power-on state.
> To avoid to waste paper and ink, I had reboot the computer.
> Cancelling job seems powerless.
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